Thursday, October 03, 2024

 

Striving for Understanding

Edward Gibbon (1737-1794), Memoirs of My Life, chapter IV:
I never suffered a difficult or corrupt passage to escape till I had viewed it in every light of which it was susceptible; though often disappointed, I always consulted the most learned of ingenious commentators...



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